344 NOCTUID^. 



connected with costa by an oblique patch, with a postmedial patch 

 beyond it on costa ; medial and postmedial bars from submedian 

 fold to inner margin ; a triangular subterminal spot on costa, a 

 small spot below vein 3 and a bar from submedian fold to inner 

 margin ; black spots on cilia at discal and submedian folds. Hind 

 wing fuscous black, the termen white interrupted by fuscous streaks 

 on the veins: cilia white. Underside of fore wing fuscous brown, 

 the inner and terminal areas white, the costal area blue-black with 

 quadrate white spot beyond middle; hind wing fuscous brown 

 with the submedian interspace and terminal area whitish, the 

 costal area suffused with purple, a whitish band from middle of 

 costa to lower angle of cell, two small subterminal brown spots 

 below apex and one below vein 2. 



Hah. SiKHiM, 5000' (Pilcher), 1 S type. Exj-). 40 millim. 



Genus APSARASA. 



Type. 



Apsarasa, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 665 radians. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about 

 to middle of frons and very broadly scaled, the 3rd moderate ; frons with 

 rounded prominence with beak like process at extremity; eyes large, round; 

 antennae of male laminate, minutely ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely 

 ■with scales and without crests ; tibiae smoothly scaled ; abdomen witln some 

 rough hair at base and crest on basal segment. Fore wing rather narrow, 

 the apex much rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 

 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing 

 with 8 to form tlie areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3,4 very 

 shortly stalked ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper 

 angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Palpi with white patch at extremity of 2nd joint ; tegulae 



with yellow patch. 



a. Fore wing with medial yellow band on inner area ; hind 



wing with the white patch extending to vein 1 nigroccerulea, 



h. Yore wing with quadrate medial yellow patch on inner 

 area ; hind wing with the white patch not e.vtending 

 below veia 2 except at termen atramenta. 



B. Palpi without, white at extremity of 2nd joint ; tegulae 



with two yellow bands. 

 a. Hind wing with the white patch extending almost to 



cell radians. 



h. Hind wing with irregular white patch on termen figurata. 



47S3. Apsarasa nigrocaBmlea, n. sp. (Plate CXLIV. fig. 30.) 



S . Head and thorax blue-black ; palpi with yellowish- white 

 marks at extremities of 1st and 2nd joints in front ; frons with 

 pale 3'ellow patch above, vertex of head with pale yellow bar ; 

 tegulfE with dorsal pale yellow patch, pro- aud mesothorax with 

 small spots and metathorax with large patch ; coxte with yellowish- 

 white patches, the femora at extremity, tibiae and fore and mid tarsi 

 ■with yellowish bands ; abdomen blue-black with smiiU dorsal pale 

 yellow spots on basal segments, the anal tuft pale yellow and the 

 ventral surface pal^ yellow with sublateral black bands. Fore wing 



